The intention is to introduce you to the people who have been carving their own path...with no care for what anybody thinks.

We try not to post things that are still for sale but sometimes post things that are not easily available. If you like what you hear, then find these people and tell them how great they are.

Better still, tell them and then seek out their new releases and buy them. We add links, when they are reliable and active, so that you can keep track if you so wish.

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Filament is the work of Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko Matsubara (aka Sachiko M). Whilst both are former members of the exemplary Ground Zero, this work is a different beast. The Improvised Music from Japan site has a lovely summation of their work:

"Filament, a limitless laboratory for memory-free post-sampling music which has completely deconstructed sampling. Filament is important both as an answer to Ground Zero's extreme chopping and plunderphonics, and as a touchstone of post-techno experimental music."

For this five disc collection of live works, the term "memory-free" is absolutely key for me. It has a quite magical effect whereby whilst you are listening to it...you forget that you are. When it stops, you can't quite remember what has just been said to you. But in the meantime, it completely declutters your mind of the daily nonsense that seems so important and actually allows real (personal) thought to come to the fore.

This is his British take on the HNW. It was self-released in an edition of 17 last year. I got my copy from the man himself. No point in me and 16 other people being the only people getting to hear this.

Long time frequenters of this space will have delighted in (kickstarter and blog virus inflictor) J's association with Mike which led to J's posts of Mike's DIY Quagga Curious Sounds label and Mike's Zebra Mu project.

It was J's post of the Quagga Sound that brought me to the original incarnation of this blog...which led to me talking to J...which led to me getting involved...which led to me doing what I have ended up doing here...

Cadaver In Drag‎ varied from grind, doom and power electronics ... often on the same release. In various incarnations, Cadaver In Drag‎ have contained Ben Allen (aka Caves), Jason Schuler (who was in Warmer Milks), Josh Lay, Morgan Rankin (aka Gnarly Sheen and runs Husk Records with Josh) and Travis Shelton (also of Warmer Milks).

This CDr was released on BloodLust! in 2009 and contains material from the Abuse CD on Husk Records and the Breathing Sewage tape on Animal Disguise from 2005. It also includes a previously unreleased collaboration with Mark Solotroff.

I thought that they had stopped recording in around 2009 (which is true) and there would be no more to hear (which is not true). Husk Records have just released "The final lost full length studio album from this genre bending, misanthropic, and often misunderstood band finally unearthed after being recorded in 2009. This is a document of the last stage of the band as they were pushing things into even more abstract terrain than before and continuing their reputation of genre rebellion. Complete with guest appearances from Sara O' Keefe, and studio magic from Paul Puckett".